A record breaking box office success when it was first released, Sunny Chan’s Hong Kong comedy Table for Six is built around a series of family dinners that go spectacularly wrong, and features an appealing ensemble cast. Most of them are back for this long-awaited sequel, which Chan also directs as a Lunar New Year special. While the first film confined itself almost entirely to one apartment, number two is much wider in its ambitions: this time it’s a cascade of weddings that leads to a tornado of comic mistaken identities.
Louis Cheung and Charm Man Chan reprise their roles from the original film as half-brothers Bernard and Lung, who suddenly find themselves involved in wedding planning with their respective long-term girlfriends Monica (Stephy Tang) and Josephine (Ivana Wong). In Table for Six 2 these midlife regrets that hang over the shenanigans have been replaced by the siblings’ fear of commitment. It’s not a theme the sequel is well-equipped to explore seriously, careering between one flashy wedding venue and another. Also absent is all that mouthwatering food a significant part of what made the first film so enjoyable.
Table for Six 2 tries to fill the gap left by wondrously deadpan Dayo Wong who doesn’t return with another character altogether, pop idol Mark Gor (Jeffrey Ngai), as Meow’s new love interest. But it isn’t really a like for like swap, Wong had fabulous comic timing, which is sorely missed here. The chemistry between the actors compensates for a lackluster script; still, this demonstrates neatly that more money doesn’t always mean more feast in film-making terms.
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